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All his life, working as a shepherd, Janos has been hoping for his independence. Like his sheep, wandering around the pasture carefree, he dreams of finally opening the door that limits his freedom. As he looks for a path to different worlds, we watch the life cycle, filled with magic, which takes place amid picturesque pastures, accompanied by birdsong and the rustle of leaves.
Europe's largest refugee camp is frequently reported on in the media. However, these reports have slowed down, especially during the corona pandemic, and what you see from the camp are often images of misery. However, this is only part of the reality, which is why we try to capture the island's many facets. Lesvos is much more than just the suffering and hardship of the refugees.
This short film is an acknowledgement to those who struggle with mental health issues.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already an indispensable part of our lives. In the field of social life, economy, health care, army, traffic and education... Everywhere there are more and more - sometimes very surprising - applications. And the end is far from in sight, the potential is enormous. An enlightening documentary that looks at the present and the future of AI, but also dares to ask questions about possible pitfalls. Should we set a limit somewhere or place our full trust in AI? Are we gradually becoming superhumans or are we just losing control of our own destiny?
In the mineral landscape, the figures seem to belong to a re-imagined archaic age. Huge masks, hieratic postures condense each character into an archetype. Suddenly they reappear in a shadow theater whose stretched sheet echoes the cinema screen. A spectator falls asleep and reappears with an animal mask, simultaneously red riding hood and wolf. Gaia Formenti and Marco Piccareda continue on the path of Creatura dove vai? (FID 2019) with this tale which, its formal fertility becoming sexual, culminates in a hymn of the mucous membrane and bodily fluids. (Nathan Letoré)
Antonio is stuck to his routine. During the night, he works in a recycling plant and during the day stays with his family with whom he doesn’t really get along. One day, while working, he discovers that he can begin to make decisions about his life and change it to his will.
La Piave is an attempt to describe the Piave river and its surroundings as a character in constant change. Each chapter shows a different research session in which the landscape is analyzed in its structure through individual shots, thus forming a naturalist mosaic that accounts for the different conformations of the territory over the years. This first part collects the documentation of the place made by me between 2017 and 2021, as well as a couple of found footage sequences.
Seven people are conjoined inside a black box of love and hate as they become destined by their emotions to get dragged into their darkest depths.
The modern prefabricated house construction makes it possible: foundation, walls, roof - and all that within 48 hours. Every fifth building owner nowadays opts for the simple "let build" method. The industry is booming and produces its own four walls on an assembly line. In our documentary, the reporters follow the path of the raw material from the log to the prefabricated house ready for occupancy and show the challenges that builders and planners can sometimes encounter.
An unexpected encounter causes two girls to fall in love between the beeps of the arcade machines and the rhythm of the music from the skating rink.
Supported financially by his mother in Paris, Medhi will learn to become an adult through the discovery of his first sexual emotions and emancipate himself from his mother.
The director Alain Jessua evokes his beginnings, his career and recalls with passion his experience with the greatest filmmakers.
A woman’s boyfriend is missing but he returns as a vampire and then things get weird.
Caught up in a violent snowstorm, the rabbits seek refuge in their king's castle. This animated film is a wonderful combination of the aesthetics of old horror movies, the music of Chopin, and of course rabbits!
Something is happening in Soria ... Several stories are being spread on WhatsApp and Social Media. Renowned journalists and youtubers are reporting on curious events but there is one that can change the reality of our country. Now, “Ground Zero” is Soria.
Natalia enters a sex shop ready to rent a movie to surprise her partner. Suddenly a girl enters for whom Natalia feels a strong attraction and can no longer get out of her head.
A camera. Landscapes in which dirt tracks barely hide the mass graves and in which the bodies of the ‘disappeared’ flow down the river. With an incisive tone, Cristina Motta calls for the memory of the people who fell victim to the violence in Argentina and Colombia, two territories she holds dear.
A Jewish girl and an SS officer are protagonists of the computer game developed by the young game designer Yaar. The story is said to be based on the experiences of his grandmother in the Krakow ghetto. What begins as a journey into the past quickly becomes a search for one's own identity. FINALLY TACHELES is an intensive examination of the consequences of National Socialism and shows people on their very personal way of dealing with history.
In Sicily, a small farming village survived in the area of Marineo, just 30 kilometres from Palermo. Over the course of the four seasons, life and traditions adapt to the changing crops and climates. This documentary tells the story of the people there who, with the crisis in cereal production and milk cow raising, are seeking to maintain the traditions of their ancestors, their fathers and grandparents. They are still using age-old tools to work the land and raise animal species that are disappearing due to industrial breeding.
A cat goes to a job interview where his skills are valued by three mice. As the interview progresses the situation becomes increasingly uncomfortable for everyone involved.
After a young boy is traumatized after viewing the body of his passed mother, he becomes Haunted by the figure of her body.
Internal journey during a short shipwreck. I am in Iguazu Falls. I cannot find my mother and I only have a camera with me.
The head of the serial killer, who disappeared from the University laboratories, was found by a grandson of the scientists. After a series of experiments, he mistakenly injects the genes of the shot into an alcoholic man.
Three employees of a foundry meet up with themselves in an abandoned quarry in Charente. Affected by work, the workers remember the sequence of the gestures that they do every day.
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In the cars that pick him up as he hitchhikes, the voice of a young man we’ll never – or hardly – see, describes in detail the depression that brought him to the medical health centre. Although the story of his troubled life follows a fairly coherent thread guided by a few undeniable obsessions (birds and cars, for example), in contrast, the image is a brisk montage of a succession of increasingly astonishing shots and extremely diverse registers.
David Adams, a young man who has decided to partially close his eyes , one day decides to overcome his trauma undergoing a particular exposure therapy in a pool.
Mercury's Retrograde is an inner dialogue about seeking answers, presented in a comic and lighthearted way, concealing a deeper, tragic truth of our generation.
Untold Revolution documents the beginning of the journey of the agricultural movement towards food sovereignty in Palestine, from an emancipatory ideological standpoint that seeks to break away from the dependence on the Israeli occupier and the global monopolistic companies. The movement advocates for the adoption of food production systems that are based on natural resources, local production inputs, values of cooperation, and agricultural practices that are culturally, environmentally, socially, economically, and nationally appropriate for the Palestinian context.
In the heart of central Europe are some of the world’s most impenetrable military strongholds. In France, 160 megastructure fortresses still line the country’s borders 3 centuries after they were constructed. As solid as ever, how did they withstand attack after attack? Was the secret in their materials? Their shape? In fact, the strength and resilience of these megastructures is due to the genius of one man: Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban.
When an origami kiwi dreams of flying in the clouds, his friends decide to help him.
This two image comparative film celebrates a Beech Tree through changes in light, space and time, represented in the film in transitions between light and shade (LS) and visibility and obscurity (RS). The film is silent and made handheld over a period of 10 years from 2010-20
The rise of mining and climate change have led to vast desertification in Mongolia, according to Mongolian shamanistic belief violation of nature by men provokes the anger of the ruling spirits or the 'masters of the land'.
"Frozen Jumper" begins in hit-and-run style with a pulsating textural noise. Flickering, nearly rectangular patterns join on the image plane, at first in black-and-white, bringing to mind the sprocket holes in celluloid film and, not least due to the lack of geometric precision, giving the impression of a pre-digital origin. As the soundtrack rattles on in a minimalistic way, the pattern’s twitchy dance is submerged in various warm hues such as yellow, pink, light green and light blue, which in a different rhythm and to a more agreeable music could be perceived as the signature of slightly retro psychedelia.
On the 14th of November 2020 the Polisario Front considered breaking the ceasefire calling on the United Nations to intervene and declare a 'state of war' throughout the territory in response to an attack commited by Moroccan forces the day before. On the early morning of thursday to friday the 13th of November, at the border crossing of Guerguerat, Moroccan forces took action to expel a group of around 50 Sahrawi civilians who were, since the 21st of October, blocking the connectiong road with Mauritania in order to demand that the United Nations hold a referendum of autoindependence as was promised in 1991. In this short documentary the situation of the Sahrawi people after the events of the 13th of November is explained.
Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan conducts and sings with the French Radio Orchestra in a sensual programme celebrating the city of lights: gay Paris. Mezzo-soprano Julia Dawson, tenor Ziad Nehme and bass-baritone Douglas Williams also perform. Programme: Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Kurt Weill – Youkali Jacques Offenbach - La Gaîté parisienne
A day like any other, Verona. Anna, 25, a university student, spends her day studying and doing Catholic volunteer work in a soup kitchen. In the evening she works as a rider, a chore like any other, to supplement a bit. In a factory in the suburbs, Bruno is finishing his shift as a metalworker, even today passed to suffer the harassment of his boss. He can't wait to meet up with his friends, all militant far-right, to hang out, drink, have fun. Even Carlo, a second generation immigrant, and his girlfriend Diana, a university student and political activist, after a day at home, decide to go out for a walk downtown. The four meet, despite themselves, at Porta Leoni.
For more than two years, a father and his one-year-old daughter embark on a crazy adventure in the heart of the Mercantour, the wildest national park in France. Between an initiatory journey and nature education before school education, Naïs will live until she is three years old of real magic moments. She will be able to get closer to the fauna and cross the path of the most elusive of all animals .... the wolf!
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3 a.m. in one of those anonymous cities: in the echoes of an exuberant party, a young man and a young woman meet in the red glow of a traffic light. The disappointed expectations for an exciting evening are quickly transferred to the unexpected encounter and soon the way home becomes a journey through the deserted urban night. Playful flirt turns serious when the man‘s eyes wander to a faint light in the sky. Despite her initial fear that he is romantically gazing at the stars, his eyes are searching the sky for Gegenschein: „the sun casting its shadow in the night“. From a brief moment of intimacy, a mercilessly honest game of questions and answers emerges, which finally ends in a confession: „What‘s the worst thing you‘ve ever done?“
When artist Anna Fries was pregnant, they didn’t feel at all like the stereotypical image of the expectant parent—a woman with hands clasped over her belly, her face glowing, gazing blissfully into the distance. It’s an image that leaves little room for those who are pregnant but do not identify as female, or for the reality that being pregnant can be physically tough and extremely disorienting. High time, then, to de-romanticize and de-feminize pregnancy.
On the morning of April 1, 1944, a squadron of Allied bombers flew over the Swiss border. With scarce fuel reserves for the return flight and a lack of experience, they unloaded their bomb load over the next visible target of opportunity. Tragically, forty people were killed in Schaffhausen as a result. This documentary recounts the events surrounding that fateful day.
Diako Yazdani, an Iranian Kurd and political refugee in France, goes to Iraq accompanied by Kojin, a 23-year-old gay friend, to confront his devout family, friends and other members of the Kurdish community with their prejudices on homosexuality. Through humour and poetry, the director presents a powerful portrait where encounters between people are an invitation to reflect on being different.
The journey of the cartoonist Jossot, from Gustave to Abdul Karim, has not finished questioning us about the debates that animate our contemporary society.
An entertaining video filmed over two years. Kids, teachers, heads, parents, ex-pupils tell the story of this unique experimental school. “Kids don’t have to go to lessons at Summerhill and can wear and do mostly what they want. How does that work??!!
A television journalist follow Paris firefighters. she's thus covers the everyday life of firefighters but also the major events and tragedies they are confronted.